Friday, January 11, 2013

Well, gee, why would Illinois want to know if you buy

Congratulations, guys; you've just given every student there reason not to trust a word coming out of your mouth. I'm sure that'll pay great dividends in the future.

Hey, Biden; you and the others might want to read this, especially the last part:I
have lived my entire life on borrowed time and now in the twilight of
my years, I have but one thing to say to those determined to take away
or limit my right to own a firearm and to transform and destroy the
greatest nation in the history of mankind. I, and many like me, will
not be intimidated and you will only accomplish your ultimate ends over
our dead bodies.

Smallest Minority links to this piece on gun, violence, drugs and where the real homicide problem is.
Which won't be dealt with by the clowns most involved unless they can figure some way to use it to increase their power and influence, because that's what's really important.

Some moron on CNN with the standard lack of knowledge about the subject(well, damn near ANYTHING) gave a 'smart guns will save us!' story(and that really is the appropriate word); one of the responses Tam notes:I want a cellphone with the reliability and durability of my Kalashnikov.
Not the other way around.

Second City Cop has something to say on the mayor deciding "I want to do something, and I'm not patient!":Of course, exactly ONE homicide was committed with a rifle in Chicago
last year, so this will do what exactly? Oh yeah, deprive the owners of
legal weapons of guns they almost never misuse while criminals (who never obeyed the law in the first place) continue to run amok.

And who's going to be enforcing this "ban?" Especially in light of the
failure of every other gun ordinance in Chicago that fails to withstand
court challenges?

We're rapidly approaching a point where Officers are going to be called
upon to make choices. Choices that can (and will) lead to loss of
personal assets, loss of jobs, or even worse when people decide they
aren't turning in their guns peacefully.

And in those cases, we aren't going to say that the citizens are in the wrong.
One comment: the mayor and the other leaders will insist that the citizens are in the wrong; they MUST be, as they aren't obeying the dictat of the Leader.

Connected to which, he got a response from Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) that includes this line:Additionally, Senator Feinstein has stated her intent to introduce
legislation concerning access to firearms at the start of the 113th
Congress. To date, that legislation has not been introduced. As always, it is important that we not unnecessarily infringe on the legitimate Second Amendment rights of responsible gun owners.
Don't you just love that critical word? Tells you a lot, probably more than Hagan hoped it would.
Note: when a politician uses 'unnecessarily' in such a way, it means "I don't want to admit how much I'm willing to screw you over."

Also, further down in another post,The Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today
issued a bristling response to Brady Campaign President Dan Gross, who
insisted as he left the White House meeting with Vice President Joe
Biden that the current push for more gun control “is not a debate around
the Second Amendment.”..“The hell it’s not,” CCRKBA Chairman
Alan M. Gottlieb declared. “The right to keep and bear arms is at the
core of this anti-gun campaign, and Dan Gross knows it.”..The
Brady Campaign is one of several so-called “gun safety” organizations
that have already met with Vice President Biden and his gun control task
force. Gottlieb challenged that definition...“The Brady
Campaign and other such organizations are all about gun prohibition, not
safety,” he said. “They’re not interested in safety when all they want
is to disarm law-abiding Americans and taking the best means of
self-defense away from crime victims while doing nothing to disarm
criminals...“The White House calling the gun prohibition lobby a
‘gun safety’ group is tantamount to suggesting that Ted Bundy was an
advocate for battered women,” he said.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis

Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. - Capt. Mal

A Rifleman’s Prayer:Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses. Geek with a .45

"He's Black Council,", I said.

"Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered.

I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier."

Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." Ebenezar McCoy

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself." Dr. M.L. King Jr.